the c7-ras 6/061-004 training course by the international atomic energy agency/regional cooperative agreement (iaea/rca) was held in chiba in 2014. the syllabus, pre- and post-course evaluations, and survey questionnaire results were assembled in this course. the post-course evaluation, including 32 questions similar to the pre-course evaluation, was performed right after the end of the final e...

background: cancer is the third leading cause of death in iran. novel chemotherapeutic agents can lead to considerable improvements in cancer treatment, although using these agents requires special skills and experiences. the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a short course education on nurses’ knowledge and attitude. methods: overall, 24 nurses participated in this short educatio...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the road that led to a revolution and a new era of learning environments. Educational institutions have come under pressure to adopt new models that assure openness in their education distribution. Nonetheless, there is still altercation about the pedagogical approach and the absolute information delivery to the students. On the other side with the use of...

Die manuelle Bewertung von offenen Aufgaben, insbesondere Freitextaufgaben, ist für Lehrende zeitaufwändig und unterliegt Schwankungen durch subjektive Einschätzungen. Besonders im Hinblick auf aktuelle Entwicklungen wie Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), bei denen sich zehntausende Studierende für OnlineVorlesungen einschreiben, ist formatives Assessment ohne Automatisierung der Bewertung unm...

The historically-famous Lotus Fortress site, a deep 1.5-3.0-meter-high, 200-meter-long horizonal notch high up in near-vertical sandstone cliffs comprising the Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation, has been known since the 13th Century as an impregnable defensive position. The site is also extraordinary for having multiple tetrapod track-bearing levels, of which the lower two form the floor of part of ...

The number of single-bicycle crash victims is substantial in countries with high levels of cycling. To study the role of visual characteristics of the infrastructure, such as pavement markings, in single-bicycle crashes, a study in two steps was conducted. In Study 1, a questionnaire study was conducted among bicycle crash victims (n = 734). Logistic regression was used to study the relationshi...

Seabirds, as other marine top predators, are often assumed to forage in an unpredictable environment. We challenge this concept and test the hypothesis that breeding Northern gannets (Morus bassanus) anticipate the spatio-temporal occurrence of their prey in the English Channel. We analyzed 23 foraging tracks of Northern gannets breeding on Rouzic Island (Brittany) that were recorded using GPS ...

This paper explores the methodological approaches most commonly adopted in the scholarly literature on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), published during the period January 2008 May 2014. In order to identify trends, gaps and criticalities related to the methodological approaches of this emerging field of research, we analyzed 60 papers selected across four relevant scientific databases plus...

This paper explores some aspects of communication with rail stakeholders in order to manage risks associated with rail accidents involving pedestrians legitimately crossing tracks at user-controlled crossings. It considers some issues contributing to the risks including human factors, some modelling approaches as well as some potential ways of addressing the problem. Ultimately, a key factor is...

Student essays provide rich information about the students’ knowledge gain and the writing skills acquired. However, hand-scoring is time consuming and does not lend well to large-scale data analyses. Automated scoring of the writing allows monitoring and feedback for individual students as well as tracking changes in performance at district and state levels. We describe an operational implemen...